No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people.

I believe our concept of romantic love is irrational, impossible to fulfill and the cause of many broken homes. No human being can maintain that rarefied atmosphere of 'true love'.

Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship.

There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.

Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.